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by jmull 1y ago
That's more a joke about people coming to rely on any observable behavior of something, no matter how buggy or unintentional. Here's we're talking about killing off XSLT used in the intended, documented, standard way.
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by jmull 1y ago
Breaking the fundamental promise of the HTML spec is a big deal. The discussions don't address that. That surprises me, because these seem to be the people in charge of the spec. The promise is, "This is HTML. Count on it." N
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by jmull 1y ago
Gccrs an effort to create an alternate compatible implementation. It hasn't yet created a generally usable compiler. I'm sure they would be among the most interested in a spec. They are currently forced to use the implementation
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by jmull 1y ago
I hope this is clear: the published language standard the previous poster was asking about does not currently exist. You linked to efforts to create a specification, but they aren't done or close to done. It's also not clear the g
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by jmull 1y ago
This looks like not so much traps, but a list of things the author has learned. Much of it would only apply in certain relatively narrow contexts, but the contexts aren't necessarily mentioned. Some of it appears to be just wrong. I gu
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by jmull 1y ago
This isn't an unlimited loophole in the constitution (at least not so far). As the article you link to points out, "It is not always clear when the government is speaking for itself instead of unconstitutionally restricting others
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by jmull 1y ago
> The state can direct its employees what kinds of books to make available for the same reason any private entity can do so. Not according to the constitution.
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by jmull 1y ago
The AIs at the forefront of the current AI boom work by expressing the patterns that exist in their training data. Just avoid trying to do anything novel and they'll do just fine for you.
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by jmull 1y ago
> If the AI search result tells you everything you need, why would you ever visit the actual website? AI has this problem in reverse: If search gets me what I need, why would I use an AI middleman? When it works, it successfully regurgit
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by jmull 1y ago
I think rationalist cults work exactly the same as religious cults. They promise to have all the answers, to attract the vulnerable. The answers are convoluted and inscrutable, so a leader/prophet interprets them. And doom is neigh, pr
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by jmull 1y ago
I realize this wasn't the main reason they switched, but from my perspective, $156/mo and $250/mo for db is essentially the same number: Way too much for a project without a budget, and approximately zero for a project with a
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by jmull 1y ago
Why do you even need Claude Code? A frustration of using tools is that they never entirely act exactly the way you want... instead of it working the way you want, you have to work they way it wants (and before that, you have to figure out w
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by jmull 1y ago
I think the reason people use text file + "snowflake software" is that they want just the structure (constraints) they want, and no more. BTW, what people want changes over time and by circumstance. org mode has a lot of features,
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by jmull 1y ago
> So basically... Well, not really. Consider lambdas in C++ (that was the perspective of the post I replied to). Before lambdas, you used functors to do the same thing. However, the syntax was slightly cumbersome and C++ has the design p
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by jmull 1y ago
You can declare an anonymous struct that has a function and reference that function inline (if you want). There's a little more syntax than a dedicated language feature, but not a lot more. What's "missing" in zig that l
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by jmull 1y ago
This is consistent with my experience… which is why I’m still an AI skeptic (relatively speaking, that is). Generally, it’s making easy stuff easier. That’s nice, but doesn’t change the game. Personally, I already know how to whip through m
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by jmull 1y ago
Circular argument.
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by jmull 1y ago
Right... Failed protocols such as TCP adopted Postel's law as a guiding principle, and we all know how that worked out!
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by jmull 1y ago
Technical debt will have a strong negative impact on a project/product over time if left unresolved (if it doesn't, it probably isn't really something we should call technical debt). That is, technical debt matters whether an
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by jmull 1y ago
Well, F-. I can't believe how far I got on that article before it finally dawned on me that it's just some AI slop. (Well, that's the charitable explanation.)
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by jmull 1y ago
> correlate to better performance. ...on IQ tests.
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by jmull 1y ago
That's a good way to put it. As a user, when the model tells me things that are flat out wrong, it doesn't really matter whether it would be categorized as a hallucination or a dumb error. From my perspective, those mean the same
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by jmull 1y ago
I love the setup, but this sadly fails to deliver. The author doesn't seem to have any idea how to fit the twists and turns of frontend software development trends onto the metaphor of koalas and crows. BTW, jQuery has waned not becaus
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by jmull 1y ago
I guess the problem is such people will mostly use passwords that are as weak as they can get away with.
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by jmull 1y ago
The DOM is too large and complex, with so many APIs and concepts. But you can’t fix that by adding new APIs with plenty of new concepts. You’re just making things larger and more complex. A few things may be able to live entirely inside t
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by jmull 1y ago
> …why would [an] author write a version range that includes versions that don’t exist yet? … For that, kids, I have no good answer. When you first take a dependency, you typically want the latest compatible version, to have all the avai
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by jmull 1y ago
I think the idea is errors are for control flow. If you have other information to return from a function, you can just return it — whether directly as the return value or through an “out” parameter or setting it in some context.
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by jmull 1y ago
Just to point out, the problem in that issue isn’t really about JSON parsing. It’s about the layer whose job it is to verify/sanitize the input passing the unverified/unsanitized input through to the next layer. The idea that yo
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by jmull 1y ago
The issue was triggered by using multiple parsers, with different behaviors. The change of behavior here would prevent the specific problem, but makes the general problem worse. This change creates a new code path that did not exist when al
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by jmull 1y ago
Changing the default behavior for duplicate keys is unnecessary... and therefore should not be done. IMO, it's nuts to purposely introduce random bugs into the apps of everyone who uses your dependency.

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